I. PROJECT OVERVIEW
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development of a local government’s policy from the perspective of one of four well known models of policy development– the rational-comprehensive model; incrementalism; elitism; or the pluralist model. These four models are the only ones acceptable for this research paper. Although there are several other such models, these four are the only ones that may be used for your research. You may not combine models.
A very important point: governments do not choose to use any specific model. They are generally rather expedient when it comes to policy development. The purpose of a model is for you, the observer, to understand and make an educated guess as to how your chosen policy was formed. In other words, it is what you, the observer, see in regards to how your particular local policy is being developed. What model do you, the researcher, see being employed to solve the problem being addressed by the policy? It is though you are on the outside looking in.
II. EXPECTATIONS
As you write your paper, each chapter must be completely separate and discrete. For example, the model that you choose may not be mentioned in Chapter One, nor can the policy itself be mentioned in Chapter Two. It is not until Chapter Three that the policy as well as the model is mentioned together.
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